Best 435 quotes in «excuse quotes» category

Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

Now if you’ll excuse me, Death waits for no man. Except me.

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.

Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs.

Once I stopped with the excuses, my life has changed. There's no reason for me to lose any more.

Olivia: You didn't even know I was there! Harry: Excuse me, yes I did.

Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.

One of the reasons people aren't rich is because almost everyone has more excuses than money.

One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.

Patience is a virtue. (Tee) Excuse me, pot, could you not pick on the kettle? (Joe)

Originality is no excuse for ignorance.

Philosophy is the only excuse God has for his cruelty and vanity.

People who say it takes money to make money are using the worst excuse ever. . . Create massive value for others by providing a solution where no other exists.

Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

Please excuse Jason from eternal damnation. He has had amnesia.

Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

Poverty and War have no excuse.

Positively dealing with the unexpected by looking for solutions, not excuses, is the choice you need to make.

Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.

Precedents are the disgrace of legislation. They are not wanted to justify right measures, are absolutely insufficient to excuse wrong ones. They can only be useful to heralds, dancing masters, and gentlemen ushers.

Private problems don't constitute an excuse for bad manners.

Raise $500 for a thing you care about because you actually get the experience of taking an idea and actually doing it. There are fewer and fewer excuses not to.

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes it from the disgustingness of life.

Refuse to make excuses or blame others. The leader always says, If it's to be, it's up to me.

Regardless of recommendation, I was going to fire James Comey, knowing there was no good time to do it. And, in fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story. It's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

Respect yourself as well as others; make commitments, not excuses, and make every day a fun day.

Schist," said an angry voice from the grass. Hazel raised her eyebrows. "Excuse me?" "Schist! Big pile of schist!

SCIENCE: a way of finding things out and then making them work. Science explains what is happening around us the whole time. So does RELIGION, but science is better because it comes up with more understandable excuses when it's wrong.

Science provides tangible evidence of its accuracy and importance. Religion makes excuses for its absence of the same.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

She [my wife] has had a Caesarean, so she can't bend over. It's a good excuse [for not changing nappies], I suppose.

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

Slow, steady progress is better than fast, daily excuses.

Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.

Shut up and write anyway. Don't use anything as an excuse.

Potential is an excuse to procrastinate; Ambition is a means to thrive.

Poverty can't be an excuse for bad teaching, but teaching can't be the only thing we do to combat poverty.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

So she was on her own, Kate thought, and instilled all the friendly helpfulness she could into her next question. “Excuse me, but are you the bad company young Mr. Scott has got into?

So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

Start making excuses and there's no end to it. I can't live that kind of life.

Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.

That's one of the fun things...That's your excuse for dressing up. You can get picked on and go, 'Oh well I'm in a band'.

The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.

Stem-cell research on embryos is an even worse excuse for the slaughter of life than abortion. No woman is even being spared an inconvenience this time.... It's just harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter, harvest and slaughter.